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By DAVE RESS | Daily Press | Published: May 23, 2021 (Tribune News Service) — For the past 1½ years, on 18 trips off the Virginia and North Carolina coasts, sailors and shipyard workers from Newport News have prepped the Navy’s newest carrier for deployment — 27% over its original budget and years behind schedule. The costliest single item on the Department of Defense’s shopping list, the USS Gerald R Ford has been on a fast track to launch a series of new technologies intended to boost the Navy’s striking power for at least the next 50 years. It is a fast track that started two...

Bombardier is one of the aviation companies that has been energized by rising demand for small jets with listening systems once reserved for bigger planes.

May 15, 2021 Montreal/Paris – Last month, a ghostly grey business jet took off from central Sweden and headed across the Baltic on a routine spying mission. The converted Gulfstream, caught on a tracking website, was flown by the Swedish Air Force and patrolled an area thick with Russian radar signals off the militarized coast of Kaliningrad. Apart from a couple of unobtrusive bulges underneath, Sweden’s two Gulfstream-based S102B Korpen spy planes look like any other sleek corporate jet. But inside, the Swedish jets and a growing fleet of newer corporate aircraft contain the eye...

Luxury jet makers battle over lucrative spy plane niche By Allison Lampert and Tim Hepher Reuters MONTREAL/PARIS (Reuters) - Last month, a ghostly grey business jet took off from central Sweden and headed across the Baltic on a routine spying mission. The converted Gulfstream, caught on a tracking website, was flown by the Swedish Air Force and patrolled an area thick with Russian radar signals off the militarised coast of Kaliningrad. Apart from a couple of unobtrusive bulges underneath, Sweden's two Gulfstream-based S102B Korpen spy planes look like any other sleek corporate jet. But in...

Aerospace & DefenseLuxury jet makers battle over lucrative spy plane niche Tim HepherAllison Lampert 7 minute read The interior of Raytheon's future Intelligence Surveillance Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance (ISTAR) special mission aircraft, being developed using a Bombardier Global business jet, shows onboard workstations used to help military operators rapidly process multiple types of intelligence in an undated still image from video. Raytheon Intelligence & Space/Handout via REUTERS. Last month, a ghostly grey business jet took off from central Sweden and headed across the Baltic ...